Amit Shah meets soldiers injured in Bijapur Naxal attack ANI | Updated: Apr 05, 2021 19:18 IST
Raipur (Chhattisgarh) [India], April 5 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah, accompanied by Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, on Monday afternoon met the soldiers injured in the Bijapur Naxal attack at the Narayana Superspeciality Hospital here.
Earlier in the day, Shah and Baghel laid wreaths on the coffins of 14 security personnel killed in the attack here. I held a review meeting with Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel and officers of security forces. The officers said that this fight should not weaken, which shows that the morale of our jawans is intact, said the Home Minister while speaking to reporters after his meeting with Baghel.
Raipur/New Delhi, April 5
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday said that the government is determined to take the ongoing fight against the unrest created by Naxals to its logical conclusion.
The minister, who is on a visit to Chhattisgarh, made the comment after paying tributes to the 22 security personnel who were killed by Naxals in the state on Saturday. Paid tributes to the brave security personnel who were martyred while fighting the Naxalites at Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh, he said in a tweet in Hindi. The country will never forget your bravery and sacrifice. The whole country stands behind the bereaved families. We are determined to take the ongoing fight against the unrest created by the Naxals to its logical conclusion, said Shah.
Security agencies are working to ascertain a claim made by naxals that they abducted a CoBRA commando after the ambush in Chhattisgarh on Saturday that left at least 22 security personnel dead, official sources said.
A top officer in the security establishment said that they have reasons to believe that this claim, made over phone on Sunday evening to a journalist based in Bijapur by a purported Maoist group, is true. We have not been able to locate commando Rakeshwar Singh Minhas of the 210th CoBRA battalion till now. However, we do not have concrete evidence to substantiate the claim made by some naxal elements that he has been taken away by them, a senior officer told PTI.